Sarara Hasan
Post-Professional Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design
Graduating with High Honors
The Children’s Behavioral Awareness Center is a resourceful space and a retreat for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This space aims to execute therapy with the help of the architectural environmental and corresponding tactile experiences. By using an unconventional approach with environmental psychological methods, paying attention to child anthropometrics/ergonomics and neuro-architecture, the space will act as a tool for the kids to help them cope with their condition. The facility has a play friendly curriculum and offers a naturalistic surrounding in a rather stressful and rigid urban setting to help as a coping system. The concept behind the design is using elements of daydreaming (direction, perspective and motion/movement) as a way to combat the main symptoms of ADHD (inattentiveness, impulsivity and hyperactivity). Kids with ADHD are metaphorically known to always have their heads in the clouds so this facility is a way to help them climb their way out above the clouds, where there is hope, light and a horizon of opportunities.